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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/3] blk-mq: Clean up references to old requests
 when freeing rqs
To:     John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>, hare@suse.de,
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From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
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Date:   Sat, 6 Mar 2021 10:13:11 -0800
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On 3/5/21 7:14 AM, John Garry wrote:
> @@ -2296,10 +2296,14 @@ void blk_mq_free_rqs(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set, struct blk_mq_tags *tags,
>  
>  		for (i = 0; i < tags->nr_tags; i++) {
>  			struct request *rq = tags->static_rqs[i];
> +			int j;
>  
>  			if (!rq)
>  				continue;
>  			set->ops->exit_request(set, rq, hctx_idx);
> +			/* clean up any references which occur in @ref_tags */
> +			for (j = 0; ref_tags && j < ref_tags->nr_tags; j++)
> +				cmpxchg(&ref_tags->rqs[j], rq, 0);
>  			tags->static_rqs[i] = NULL;
>  		}
>  	}

What prevents blk_mq_tagset_busy_iter() from reading hctx->tags[...]
before the cmpxcg() call and dereferencing it after blk_mq_free_rqs()
has called __free_pages()?

Thanks,

Bart.